Lets face it, DC has always had a knack for under developing it’s properties, with the only significant DC movie franchises coming out of Warner Bros in the past three decades being Batman and Superman two or three times over.

As it is, with DC now stating it’s intent to copy the successful Marvel model of establishing a stable of single character movies and building to a larger platform such as the Avengers or Justice League movies, I’m hoping to see a little bit more from Warner Bros than their previous attempts.

The only real limitation to their progress is likely to be the separation existing between the Warner Bros studio devision and DC comics. Without a strong leader calling the shots up front, like Avi Arid did in the beginning of the Marvel Studio days, these movies flounder, and we get a lot of he said she said from DC about things they’d like to do but never will.

The problem with DC is that it they have always drawn their characters a little to iconicly for mainstream film; they are near instantly recognizable but almost a little too larger than life. Superman for instance had no discernible weaknesses before writers developed kryptonite. Marvel, on the other hand, has always capitalized on working class heros such as Spiderman, X-Men, and Wolverine; characters that people can, on some level, identify with…and they just happen to have super powers.

The latter is easier to capitalize on in movie format, while the former seems to work better in animation…where Warner Bros excels…and where some level of surreality is expected.

Anyway, with several thousand characters on their roster, including well known characters such as The Flash, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern, DC and Warner Bros have the resources to be successful in the future. It’s just a matter of putting it all together.


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